As well as seeing what we can unearth, we want to do a new musical to follow ‘We Will Rock You’. The songs are there, it’s just a question of finding time to get the right production.

The last album the band made with Mercury while he was alive was their 1991 LP ‘Innuendo’. He died later that year. May recently admitted that he contemplated taking his own life shortly after the singer’s death. The guitarist, who also lost his father around the same time that Mercury died, said he felt like he “didn’t want to live” in the months following the deaths.